Transference

I always know a great piece of writing by a great author because as a writer myself while I’m reading the damn thing I’m jealous as hell. Transference by John Bowie made me jealous A LOT. So many great lines followed by greater lines. Transference is a bleak, beautiful ode to Manchester.......more

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John Bowie is best known for Bristol Noir, a terrific site where, in full disclosure, some of my writing has appeared (and I received a review copy of this book in hopes of an honest review). There’s a reason for that: a shared love of noir’s dark crystalline beauty. Transference distills that rich......more

What a fabulous book, hard boiled crime meets poetic beauty - prose that is intoxicatingly hard to swallow and a story that has sharp edges, it’s like swallowing a jagged bottle that’s been used to glass you whilst reading. ‘If Bukowski wrote hard boiled crime it would be Transference’ - there are s......more

Power, lies and corruption in the dying days of Mad-chester in the second instalment of John Bowie's dreamy noir series. John Barrie/Black heads back to Manchester for a new case and to confront his past in a book that takes the author's first hand experiences of Manchester and Salford and throws the......more